Neurofilament to predict post-anoxic neurological outcome: are we ready for the prime time?

Fabio S Taccone¹, Jerry P Nolan^{2

3}, Cornelia W E Hoedemaekers⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Route de Lennik 808, Brussels, Belgium. ftaccone@ulb.ac.be.
² Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK.
⁴ Department of Intensive Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Editorial

Fabio S Taccone et al. Intensive Care Med. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;47(1):77-79.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06309-7. Epub 2020 Nov 9.

Fabio S Taccone¹, Jerry P Nolan^{2

3}, Cornelia W E Hoedemaekers⁴

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Route de Lennik 808, Brussels, Belgium. ftaccone@ulb.ac.be.
² Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK.
⁴ Department of Intensive Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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Neurofilament light as an outcome predictor after cardiac arrest: a post hoc analysis of the COMACARE trial.
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